Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 15 hours ago
Possible sure, easy unlikely, knowing you got all the backdoors (for allies), nigh impossible. Only way to be sure is to clean room it from the ground up, not jailbreak.
hector@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
Plus it’s strongly suspected, and rumoured, to have kill switches, a fusible link that bricks the whole thing. I believe it.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
I mean every country that takes delivery of them gets to inspect it really closely. The “kill switch” is that they stop providing you the software for mission planning and shit.
hector@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
If you say so, don’t say no one warned you.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
I’m not buying any, don’t worry.
But there’s several countries involved in building them and they also have schematics. You’d think at least one would have raised alarms by now if there was truly a kill switch.
The real real kill switch is ALIS access and parts availability. Those two things can ground the planes until a replacement system is developed and parts manufactured.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 14 hours ago
Why wouldn’t they?